What is the maximal age a Desert warthog reaches?
An adult Desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) usually gets as old as 18.75 years.
Desert warthogs are around 165 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 691 grams (1.52 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Suidae family (genus: Phacochoerus), a Desert warthog caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the pig family (Suidae), found in northern Kenya and Somalia, and possibly Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. This is the range of the extant subspecies, commonly known as the Somali warthog (P. a. delamerei). Another subspecies, commonly known as the Cape warthog (P. a. aethiopicus), became extinct around 1865, but formerly occurred in South Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Desert warthog
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Suidae):
- Javan warty pig becoming 14 years old
- Red river hog becoming 20 years old
- Pygmy hog becoming 12 years old
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Giant forest hog becoming 18 years old
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Desert warthog
With an average age of 18.75 years, Desert warthog are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Goat usually reaching 20.75 years
- Ross seal usually reaching 21 years
- Anoa usually reaching 22.5 years
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 17.25 years
- Takin usually reaching 19.5 years
- Menzbier’s marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 20 years
- Eld’s deer usually reaching 19.33 years
- Japanese serow usually reaching 18.5 years
- Greater glider usually reaching 15 years
Animals with the same number of babies Desert warthog
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Gray fox
- Stella wood mouse
- Pampas fox
- Smooth-coated otter
- Emin’s gerbil
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Borneo black-banded squirrel
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
Weighting as much as Desert warthog
A fully grown Desert warthog reaches around 75.61 kg (166.68 lbs). So do these animals:
- Iberian ibex weighting 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) on average
- Wild boar weighting 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs) on average
- Ringed seal weighting 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) on average
- Alpine ibex weighting 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs) on average
- Dama gazelle weighting 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs) on average
- Puku weighting 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs) on average
- Dama gazelle weighting 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) on average
- Commerson’s dolphin weighting 72.4 kilos (159.61 lbs) on average
- Bontebok weighting 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs) on average
- Baikal seal weighting 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) on average